Romania is caught between Putin, Trump and Europe
Calin Georgescu has friends in high places. In the past few weeks the Romanian presidential hopeful has received support from...
Stitch by stitch, Rose Girone kept her family going
Knitting divides opinion. On one side are those for whom it is traumatic. First, the very look of a knitting pattern, in whic...
Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron are forging a tight link
Less than three years ago Liz Truss, not yet British prime minister, could not decide whether Emmanuel Macron, France’s presi...
Surreal “Severance” brilliantly captures the reality of office life
Every morning you heave on your armour and steel yourself for the office. The real you is in there somewhere, but in disguise...
Why silver is the new gold
It is a fabulous time to be a gold bug. Not long ago, outing yourself as one was a good way of getting people to back away fr...
Kurdish rebels in Turkey declare a ceasefire
Even from the island prison where he has spent the past 26 years, Abdullah Ocalan still wields power over the Kurdistan Worke...
It’s time to treat sexual violence in war as torture, writes a UN rapporteur
THE SOLDIERS left muddy tracks throughout the house—physical traces of the violence they unleashed that day. The boot prints ...
Donald Trump’s Washington reaches a new partisan peak
“The next president of the United States will only be the president of a party,” Thomas Jefferson predicted as George Washing...
Donald Trump’s chokehold on Ukraine
Editor’s note (March 4th 2025): This story has been updated. In a sleek business tower in Kyiv, a group of engineers huddle o...
Where the Gaza Cease-Fire Deal Goes Now Is Uncertain. Here’s What to Know.
Nearly a week after the first stage of Israel and Hamas’s cease-fire expired , both Palestinians and Israelis are in limbo, ...